We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.
Charles Taylor is out of Liberia , he is through raping and pillaging his country and the Liberian people are trying to look forward. I really think we owe it to them to look forward and not back.
We owe congratulations to the Iraqi people on achieving yet another step on their road to democracy ..., ... This is a remarkable story.
The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.
The resources we commit must empower developing countries to strengthen security, to consolidate democracy, to increase trade and investment, and to improve the lives of their people.